The seating chart at fashion entrepreneur Aisha Rawji and solutions architect Afzal Jasani’s October wedding read ‘All because two people met at summer camp’. The LA-based couple first met at the age of 16 in Pennsylvania, and started dating a couple of years later. “We were sitting next to each other in the camp group photograph, and 14 years later, we were posing for our wedding photographs!” says the bride. “It was obviously meant to be.”
Photo: Vinuthna Garidipuri
The destination
Photo: Vinuthna Garidipuri
The pre-wedding festivities and nikaah were hosted in the bride’s hometown, Los Angeles. But the couple was also keen on a destination celebration. “We wanted a place that felt far enough but also convenient to travel to.” Cabo San Lucas in Mexico fit the bill. The 180 guests stayed at the 186-room Viceroy Los Cabos Mexico Resort, but the couple did not want to limit the events to hotel ballrooms. They decided to maximise Cabo’s awe-inspiring vistas, opting for different settings each day. The sangeet was at boutique event space Baja Luna that was bursting with greenery. “I was inspired by the farmhouse parties that we attended in Delhi on my trips to India,” says Rawji. For the wedding ceremony, it was the privately owned cliffside Rancho Shibumi, which offered unobstructed views of the ocean, and for the reception, its hacienda-style courtyard. “The arches reminded me of Rajasthan, which brought an Indian touch to the surroundings,” says the bride.
